All posts tagged "Christianity"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 4, 2026As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
Religion
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 25, 2026Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
Archeology
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
September 20, 2025Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
June 2, 2025The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
May 13, 2025Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
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